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What's a 2007 Toyota corolla terra 1.4 petrol like

  • 22-03-2014 10:17am
    #1
    martineire
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    Just looking at the above car and just wondering what the car like as in regards reliability? I won't be doing big millage just town driving is all form point A to B. I know the terra is low spec but that doesn't concern me. My only concern is that the 1.4 engine is quite small on a car of that size resulting in it being very sluggish and being hard on petrol?


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  • #2
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,528 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    You'd be right about the sluggish/hard on petrol thing, but neither should be an issue once you don't drive it.
    You won't notice how slow it is in town, and all cars are harder on petrol in town.
    Reliability on those 1.4 petrols is very good.

    Avensis 1.6 is a far superior car in terms of drive, equipment, comfort, etc but the tax is marginally higher. (514 vs 385)

    Post 08 mitsubishi lancer worth a look too, tax is cheap enough on co2 band and economy is good.

    Depends what you're into really.


  • #3
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,411 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Bottom of the range Corolla - reliable + functional yes but that is about all that model Corolla has going for it. There are nicer, better finished cars out there that are just as reliable. Kia Ceed, Hyundai i30 and Mazda 3 are some that come to mind.


  • #4
    JohnBoy26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    It depends on the model corolla you are looking at. Is it the newer 07-13 model or is it the 02-07 model.

    the newer model was a poor enough car and was a bit cheap on the build quality front. Tbh much of the competition is better than these

    the older 02-07 model was a great car and was very well built. I doubt if any other car mentioned in this thread would match these for fit and finish or build quality.

    The 1.4 vvti engine is perfectly adequate(not fast but not exactly slow either) in them, developing 95bhp.


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